Overview

• Central Railway said the victims were trespassers who were intoxicated and not passengers on the Karmabhoomi Express.
• Officials rejected social-media claims that festive crowding on the Mumbai–Raxaul train caused the fatalities.
• Two men died at the scene in Nashik and a third, identified as Jimal Shyamji, is being treated at the district government hospital.
• Shyamji told authorities the group were labourers returning from Shirdi who had consumed alcohol and tried to cross the tracks.
• He said two trains arrived from opposite directions and struck them, and that the men were migrants from Dahod working in Malegaon.